See what new riverfront amphitheater will look like

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Renderings of phase one of the West Riverfront Park, an 11-acre civic park on the site of the former Thermal Transfer Plant. The park will include over one mile of multi-use greenway trails, NashvilleÕs first downtown dog park, ornamental gardens, a 1.5-acre event lawn called the Green and an amphitheater. Construction on the park began earlier this year.
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Renderings of phase one of the West Riverfront Park, an 11-acre civic park on the site of the former Thermal Transfer Plant. The park will include over one mile of multi-use greenway trails, NashvilleÕs first downtown dog park, ornamental gardens, a 1.5-acre event lawn called the Green and an amphitheater. Construction on the park began earlier this year.
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Renderings of phase one of the West Riverfront Park, an 11-acre civic park on the site of the former Thermal Transfer Plant. The park will include over one mile of multi-use greenway trails, NashvilleÕs first downtown dog park, ornamental gardens, a 1.5-acre event lawn called the Green and an amphitheater. Construction on the park began earlier this year.
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Renderings of phase one of the West Riverfront Park, an 11-acre civic park on the site of the former Thermal Transfer Plant. The park will include over one mile of multi-use greenway trails, NashvilleÕs first downtown dog park, ornamental gardens, a 1.5-acre event lawn called the Green and an amphitheater. Construction on the park began earlier this year.
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Renderings of phase one of the West Riverfront Park, an 11-acre civic park on the site of the former Thermal Transfer Plant. The park will include over one mile of multi-use greenway trails, NashvilleÕs first downtown dog park, ornamental gardens, a 1.5-acre event lawn called the Green and an amphitheater. Construction on the park began earlier this year.
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Mayor Karl Dean released final renderings Monday of an 11-acre park on the west bank of the Cumberland River that will feature an amphitheater, Nashville's first downtown dog park and a 1.5-acre event lawn called "the Green."

"This site is the last great vestige of open space in downtown Nashville, and I can't think of a better use for such beautiful green space than a world-class park, coupled with a spectacular performance venue to showcase all that Music City has to offer," Dean said in a news release.

Construction of the park on the former Nashville Thermal Transfer Plant site began earlier this year. The park, which also will offer ornamental gardens and more than a mile of greenway trails, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2015.

The park represents the first phase of an 18-acre riverfront transformation plan from Church Street to Korean Veterans Boulevard on the downtown side of the river. The amphitheater, which will be accessible to the public on non-event days, will accommodate 6,500 people with "semi-fixed" seating for 2,200, plus 4,000 lawn seats and a 300-person greenway pavilion. The 100-by-60-foot stage will have a 40-foot vertical opening.

The amphitheater will be built with environmentally sustainable features such as geothermal heating and cooling, green roofs, solar power and rainwater collection. It should be able to earn silver LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, Dean's office said. Flood walls are expected to protect the park from the kind of flood that's only supposed to occur once every 500 years.

The mayor's office said the design was inspired in part by the river's limestone bluffs. The amphitheater walls are designed to appear like natural stone rising out of the ground.